Finding the user name via the shell

[Felix Gaehtgens]

In article <6323 at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> mdella at polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Marcos R. Della) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone out there knew how to determine the users
>login name while running a shell script. I can get the home address
>$HOME, but not the name. This is under sco xenix 2.2.3 I think...

how about:

set name=`who am i | cut -f1 -d" "`

so long,
			felix